"Part of what was so interesting about my characters and the Hills was that they did come to believe what they’d experienced despite there being no physical evidence." @jenstjude.bsky.social's interview with @ilanaslightly.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/26/a...

A Little Bit More Ourselves: A Conversation with Ilana Masad - Chicago Review of Books

An interview with Ilana Masad on her new novel, "Beings"

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If you're a transfeminine author who's trying to fundraise for basic needs, gender affirming care, or to leave the United States, either drop your link in the replies or DM me. I have a mutual aid plan that I'm gonna be working on this week.

I’m a boy mom in the sense that I’m kind of a boy and kind of a mom

My next book is up on Netgalley... if that's your thing, go forth and request! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Yours for the Season

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Picking out candy like hey do you have anything that’s so sour it’ll make my mouth bleed

Not to follow this up with "buy my book," but researching very recent trans history -- the '80s and '90s -- for my novel helped inform my thinking on both our present and on my book, so, anyway, it is ABOUT THIS, so, yes, buy my book, or request it at your library! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

Woodworking

Check out Woodworking - <p><b>"Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Remarkably Bri...

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✨Please help me spread the word as I try to raise $15K for families ASAP I will be doing a 50-page YA SFF intensive limited to 20 authors this summer for #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraising. It will be epic!!!✨ www.32auctions.com/organization...

Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA

Auction item 'Full Manuscript Critique - MG or YA' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Writing even contemporary YA sends me all the way back to my younger years. Why am I obsessively listening to Hanson? Sending pics of my favorite 2011 Bruins player to my friend? Surfing the To Write Love On Her Arms online shop?

"The ideal reader is me. I needed to read this book as badly as I needed to write it." @jenstjude.bsky.social's interview with @mcrane12.bsky.social on their new novel, "A Sharp Endless Need." (@thedialpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/13/b...

“Basketball Means Transcendence”: A Conversation with Mac Crane on “A Sharp Endless Need” - Chicago Review of Books

For years now, Mac (Marisa) Crane has blown me away with their heart-wrenching prose and narrative bravery. Everything they write—poetry, non-fiction, and fiction—is a love letter to our undeniable hu...

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A little disturbed by how much time/energy I gave the Catholic Chuch today.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.

In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data

The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.

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Whenever I go to the pharmacy I feel a little starstruck meeting someone who was good at chemistry cuz woo boy I was not

I'm so mad at M*sk and B*zos for making space (the coolest thing ever) so deeply uncool

Me to my kid: Z, you’re so funny and cool and smart, I remember when you were just born and we were wondering who you’d somebody be Z: I want to be an ogre

Was just looking for something in my older Google Drive when I stumbled upon a spreadsheet labeled "Things That Made Me Gay" and the only things on it were Taylor Hanson, '90s sports movie tomboys, and a girl in a backwards hat in an American Girl Doll Commercial.

I’m so happy for people who like sandals in any form but they fill me with fear and sensory panic and dissonance. And other normal things.

I'm very excited to share the first blurb for CLIMATE OF CHAOS by the indomitable Jen St. Jude @jenstjude.bsky.social. If you haven't had the chance to read Jen's deeply emotional and moving YA about mental health, love and hope at the end of the world, IF TOMORROW DOESN'T COME, I highly suggest it.

Just want to say nearly all my favorite people are autistic. If you’re hurting, I love you (and always).

Some stuff you can do for trans women right now today instead of/in addition to making posts about how trans people are valid: 1. Hire them 2. Donate to their gfms 3. Boost their work 4. Involve them in the conversation about what is happening worldwide to trans rights (looking @ u podcasts)

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I'm so fucking angry all the time but today is a pretty big one, not gonna lie! As a usian I won't even try to understand the in's and out's of a UK court decision but this fucking sucks and I'm going to be finding some stuff to do for trans women today because Jesus fucking Christ

Drummers are the goalies of music in that they're kinda just quirky little guys hiding in the back, holding it all down

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...

Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks

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It happened to me: I just dreamed I had to go back to finish a semester of high school. Worse: I was late to the first day and couldn’t figure out my schedule. Worst of all: I’d signed up?? To do stand up?? At the all-school assembly?? My mind has no mercy.

Y’all Black Mirror is my favorite show ever but I’m sick and my kid is double sick and no one has slept in 3 nights so I am going to be so behind on this one 😭

MY WIFE’S SHORT STORY COLLECTION IS OUT 🦴🐍✨🌺💀 If you like Mortuary Barbies, organized crime run by mean queers or the fae, Viktor from Arcane, REPO!, and the intricacies of millennial anxiety via a giant gay snake, there's a story in here for you. Happy release day @allyscottauthor.bsky.social!

Thunder feels so much louder and closer than it used to and I can’t decide if it’s because I’m an adult who’s responsible for things or because it’s the Midwest.

Voted local, looked like a Boy Scout

I've been spinning Chappell's comments on parenthood in my mind for days because they 1) are valid observations! And her perception/reality. No notes. 2) challenge the VERY mainstream expectation that we should have children, and that having children is the only path to a fulfilling/worthy life.

Happy (or some other emotion) #tdov, y'all. I love you; visible or invisible or somehow both at once.

9 newly released or soon to be released young adult books containing trans rep:

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.